Chateau Fonroque2019

RED WINE

James Suckling 92

Ripe and perfumed nose of baked blueberries, cassis, cherries, chocolate, licorice and sweet spices. It's full-bodied with ripe, firm tannins. Fleshy and plush with plenty of ripe blue fruit. From organically grown grapes.

by JS, James Suckling , 2022

Vinous Media 92

by AG, Vinous Media , 2022

Wine Spectator 90

Enticing, delivering plum sauce and blackberry preserve flavors, with singed vanilla and tobacco. Features a flash of anise on the finish. Solid. Merlot and Cabernet Franc.

by JM, Wine Spectator , 2022

Wine Advocate 92

The 2019 Fonroque has turned out nicely, offering up aromas of blackberries, minty cassis, licorice and spices. Full-bodied, ample and enveloping, with a fleshy core of fruit, powdery tannins and lively acids, it's a rich, generous, demonstrative wine that remains nicely balanced. Part of Fonroque's biodynamically farmed holdings are located on Saint-Émilion's limestone plateau, and the rest on the slopes, with more clay and colluvium.

by WK, Wine Advocate , 2022